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Slight of hand in the media.https://lionheartjournal.wordpress.com/2016/07/20/slight-of-hand-in-the-media/
https://lionheartjournal.wordpress.com/2016/07/20/slight-of-hand-in-the-media/#respondWed, 20 Jul 2016 17:36:07 +0000http://lionheartjournal.wordpress.com/2016/07/20/slight-of-hand-in-the-media/In today’s constantly connected world information about the events happening around us are easier than ever to get. On your phone, your computer, your tablet, and on your television information is constantly fed to us about what topics and situations should be important to us. World shaking and absolutely catastrophic news stories arise from out of no where stir us up and give us a cause to rally behind and then disappear as quickly as they appeared.

When the media in all its forms does everything it can to get you to look at the object in their right hand, you have to ask yourself what’s the left hand doing? If all the topics they raise can disappear so quickly were they ever all that important to begin with or was it slight of hand to distract you from the story three lines down in fine print and glossed over as quickly as possible?

Today’s technology allows to be more educated on subjects than we ever could have been in the past if we do our own research. However if all we do is devour and digest the information we fed without any further questions doesn’t it also make us easier to control?

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https://lionheartjournal.wordpress.com/2016/07/19/just-say-no/#commentsWed, 20 Jul 2016 05:04:07 +0000http://lionheartjournal.wordpress.com/2016/07/19/just-say-no/Every time a law pops up at a state or federal level that tramples all over the constitutional rights of the people we all write letters and Facebook posts explaining to politicians why they can’t do that, but why? Are we under the impression that they somehow don’t know that? It’s not like we are hiding the constitution and dictionaries from people so there’s not really a point in telling them something they have got to already know.

The question to us then is what do we do? The answer is simple and been done by people as long as oppressive laws and the governments that enforce them have existed, just say no. Write the letter, send the email, make the phone call and just tell them no. They work for us, they are supposed to be the voice of the people not “leaders” that get to decide what is best for us.

The history of this country is full of people who reasoned with politicians and laws but ultimately just said no, and sometimes those people faced consequences to that but sometimes that is the cost of freedom. Now I’m not telling anyone to willfully break the law because that would be…illegal. I’m simply asking the question at what point do we just throw our hands up and say “no, no more I’m done with this” and just go on about our lives and disregard the self directed edicts of those paid to supposedly represent our will not their own.

]]>https://lionheartjournal.wordpress.com/2016/07/19/just-say-no/feed/2lionheart57957The most powerful gun I have ever firedhttps://lionheartjournal.wordpress.com/2016/07/19/the-most-powerful-gun-i-have-ever-fired/
https://lionheartjournal.wordpress.com/2016/07/19/the-most-powerful-gun-i-have-ever-fired/#respondTue, 19 Jul 2016 23:56:12 +0000http://lionheartjournal.wordpress.com/2016/07/19/the-most-powerful-gun-i-have-ever-fired/I have fired many guns in my life, one of my favorites was a 44 magnum revolver. The sound, the recoil, the intense power of that cartridge could be felt with every pull of the trigger and it was awesome! However that revolver is not the topic of this article. The most powerful gun I have ever fired was Rohm 22 caliber revolver. If you haven’t guessed by now I’m not measuring power by muzzle velocity or foot-pounds of energy.

This diminutive revolver was the first gun I fired as a small boy. It belongs to my Grandpa and I will always remember the subtle crack of those little 22 short cartridges as we shot at the hill side across a creek. This is the gun that sparked a love of firearms in me and as will probably come as no shock to anyone handguns are still my favorite to shoot.

I consider this the most powerful gun I have ever fired not because of the impact the rounds made when they hit a target but because of the impact that gun had on me. My Grandpa, and that little revolver, are why I am a gun owner today. And why I will pass that responsibility, and the understanding of our fundamental rights that I have gained from it, on to another generation.

I hear talk of the AR 15 being the weapon that will defend freedom and I’m not downplaying the importance of such weapons. However I believe a 22 in the hands of a new generation of Anericans who will come to understand the responsibility and importance of gun ownership will go much further to help ensure the love of freedom in all aspects including the right to bear arms will, never die.

]]>https://lionheartjournal.wordpress.com/2016/07/19/the-most-powerful-gun-i-have-ever-fired/feed/0lionheart57957I’ve been sayin’ it.. https://lionheartjournal.wordpress.com/2016/07/14/ive-been-sayin-it/
https://lionheartjournal.wordpress.com/2016/07/14/ive-been-sayin-it/#commentsFri, 15 Jul 2016 01:48:04 +0000http://lionheartjournal.wordpress.com/2016/07/14/ive-been-sayin-it/Ok folks, I’ve been saying for years while we fight over guns here in the states that you don’t need a gun or a bomb to be a terrorist. Cars kill more people every year by accident than guns do on purpose and it doesn’t take the proverbial rocket scientist to figure out that when turned into a weapon they would be devastating. The problem has never been the tools of bad men it IS the bad men.

]]>https://lionheartjournal.wordpress.com/2016/07/14/ive-been-sayin-it/feed/3lionheart57957Who the real enemy is https://lionheartjournal.wordpress.com/2016/07/12/who-the-real-enemy-is/
https://lionheartjournal.wordpress.com/2016/07/12/who-the-real-enemy-is/#commentsTue, 12 Jul 2016 17:41:00 +0000http://lionheartjournal.wordpress.com/2016/07/12/who-the-real-enemy-is/Convince the public that the police are their enemy, convince the police that the public is their enemy, convince the people that anyone who’s a different color is their enemy, convince republicans that democrats are their enemy, and convince democrats that republicans are their enemy, and while they all go to battle with one another reap all the spoils of that war. That is the tactic of the real enemy of us all..
]]>https://lionheartjournal.wordpress.com/2016/07/12/who-the-real-enemy-is/feed/3lionheart57957How We All Miss the Point on School Shootingshttps://lionheartjournal.wordpress.com/2014/06/12/how-we-all-miss-the-point-on-school-shootings/
https://lionheartjournal.wordpress.com/2014/06/12/how-we-all-miss-the-point-on-school-shootings/#respondThu, 12 Jun 2014 15:47:32 +0000http://lionheartjournal.wordpress.com/?p=208http://markmanson.net/school-shootings
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https://lionheartjournal.wordpress.com/2014/05/07/so-this-is-what-recovery-looks-like/#respondThu, 08 May 2014 05:19:46 +0000http://lionheartjournal.wordpress.com/?p=206Labor Force Participation Rate for 25-29 Year Olds Hits Record Low http://tiny.iavian.net/2a35 @drudgereportapp
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https://lionheartjournal.wordpress.com/2014/05/07/recovery/#respondThu, 08 May 2014 05:19:12 +0000http://lionheartjournal.wordpress.com/?p=204Economy Not Keeping Up With Population Growth http://tiny.iavian.net/2a3a @drudgereportapp
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https://lionheartjournal.wordpress.com/2014/05/05/federal-government-and-owns-do-not-compute/#respondMon, 05 May 2014 19:17:37 +0000http://lionheartjournal.wordpress.com/?p=201Nevada ranch standoff reveals bigger fight over federally owned land in West http://tiny.iavian.net/29s0 @drudgereportapp
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https://lionheartjournal.wordpress.com/2014/05/05/you-dont-say/#respondMon, 05 May 2014 19:16:45 +0000http://lionheartjournal.wordpress.com/?p=199Own a small business? Brace for Obamacare pain http://tiny.iavian.net/29t1 @drudgereportapp
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